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The Pursuit of HappYness movie review
Another film which has just hit theatres in India although it was released world-wide in December last year is Pursuit of HappYness. It got an Oscar nomination for Will Smith and so I decided to see it. Will Smith plays Chris Gardner, an intelligent but impoverished salesman who wants to move up in life. Apparently, this is a true story of a poor and homeless single father, Christopher Gardner, who struggles to become a successful stock broker although he has not studied beyond high school.
True story? You got to be joking. Well, the rags to riches part is believable but the incidents that were shown (to dramatise the movie I guess) were totally unrealistic. Some were plain silly. Like Chris arriving a few minutes before the crucial interview without a proper shirt and tie because he is arrested by the police the previous evening. Or when he is hit by a car and arrives at work without a shoe. Or the time he runs after a mad tramp who walks away with the 'scanner' that he is selling. Another time Chris leaves his precious scanner with a hippie and then chases her across town when she runs away with it! All these incidents were supposedly part of his 'struggle' to improve his lot in life. After some time these incidents start to get boring. They seem contrived and trivial. And then the most unbelievable part – Chris is hired by a leading stock broker firm because he can solve the Rubik cube puzzle! It just didn't jell. It was soooo Bollywood! And these guys are telling us that this is a true story??
And the way they showed this Chris guy hunting for a place to sleep dragging along his little boy, it was so full of pathos that it was irritating. They milked the 'devoted' father angle to the absolute limit. Again, very Bollywood, but at least when Bollywood makes drama it makes real good drama. Bollywood can make you cry. This one didn't come anywhere near it. I think this Italian director, Gabriele Muccino, needs to see some Bollywood movies.
The wife's character was totally unrealistic. She leaves him simply because he is not earning enough money. Well if she was really that horrible a person, the kind of woman who would leave a caring, loving husband and father who is struggling to improve his lot in life, then it should be shown that way. But she was shown in a good light…I didn't quite get that part.
And when I came home I decided to check what the Wiki had to say and bingo! It all came together. This is NOT a true story. The only thing that is true is that this guy Christopher was poor and he was single and he had a small kid. And he struggled to make it to the top…the actual incidents were invented. This is what the Wiki says about the differences between the film and actual events:
1) The wife is an amalgamation of Gardner's two previous wives.
2) The Rubik's cube incident never happened. Smith came up with that idea, because he has always been fascinated with Rubik's cubes.
3) He spent 10 days in jail for not paying his parking tickets. (not just a night which got him late for the interview)
4) He sometimes spent the night underneath his desk when the shelters were full.
5) One of the reasons he was hired by the company inspite of not having a college education was because as part of the Reagan 1981 tax bill, the federal government initiated very lucrative tax incentives to corporations who employed a large minority workforce. So between 1981 and 1983 many companies, exclusively hired minorities in order to qualify for these tax incentives.
And its not just the unrealistic parts, I think that the director could have done a better job overall. The movie dragged and the incidents which showed the hardships that Chris went through were repetitive. And too many looong conversations between father and five year old son. I guess the director was trying hard to add pathos to the movie…but he didn't succeed very well. Sure, Will Smith did a fairly good job playing the homeless father, but well, he didn't deserve the Oscar for it. And another mistake of the director is to call this movie a true story when most of it isn't.
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How can I lose weight if I have hypothyroidism?
Every weekday, a CNNHealth expert doctor answers a viewer question. On Friday, it's Dr. Melina Jampolis, a physician nutrition specialist.
How can I lose weight when I have hypothyroidism and I can't do strenuous exercise? My doctor is still adjusting my thyroid medication, so my TSH (thyroid-stimulating hormone) is still high at 22. Added to that, I've got heart problems and have been told by my cardiologist not to do strenuous exercise! I do a lot of walking and typically do 10,000 steps a day. I've been doing a low fat 1,400 calorie diet with no result. I was thinking about a low-carb 1,200 calorie diet and upping my steps to 15,000 a day but I'm wondering what else I can do when I can't exert myself.
Asked by Serene of Sacramento, California
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Hi Serene,
It sounds like you are in a frustrating situation. First of all, until you are taking the appropriate dose of thyroid medication and your TSH is in the normal range (I like to see it in the mid-normal range for my patients, around 2, for those that are struggling with their weight), it will probably be very difficult for you to lose weight.
The thyroid gland plays an important role in metabolism, and if your thyroid hormone levels are low, as indicated by a high TSH (thyroid hormone normally suppresses TSH when present at normal levels), your metabolism will be low and you will not burn as many calories every day.
When your TSH gets into the normal range, however, don't expect the weight to just fall off without continued effort. I find that most of my patients have to continue working very hard to lose weight even when their TSH is in the normal range. Without knowing your age, height, weight (especially where you tend to carry your excess weight - in the hips and thighs or in the belly), it's hard to make specific recommendations.
I think trying a nutrient-dense 1,200-calorie diet with fewer starchy carbs like bread, crackers, pasta, rice, cereal and baked goods might be useful, especially if your waist is greater than 35 inches (40 inches for men). Try to eat lean protein with most meals and snacks as this can give you a slight metabolic boost and having a cup or two a day of green tea (decaf is OK if you can't tolerate caffeine) could give you a slight metabolic boost as well, especially before exercise (check with your cardiologist regarding the caffeine since I don't know the nature of your heart problem).
As far as exercise, 10,000 steps a day is terrific. If you have the time and energy to increase to 15,000 steps per day, that could help. The latest government guidelines suggest that some people may need 90 minutes per day of exercise to lose weight. If your cardiologist approves, you might consider adding in hills on a regular basis to work your muscles differently and burn more calories.
In addition, I would definitely add strength training at least twice a week to build calorie-burning muscle. If you begin a strength training program, the scale may not move right away, but it should in the long run and it will help you keep the weight off.
Finally, for optimal heart health, a low-fat diet is not the best approach. A better idea would be to follow a moderate fat diet (about 25-30%) and substitute healthy fats like nuts, seeds, avocado, fatty fish, olive oil and canola oil for saturated fat like butter, cheese, cream and sugary and refined carbohydrates (Choose whole grains, which are heart healthy.).
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For gamers, combating online abuse not easy
SEATTLE (AP) — While most attendees of Penny Arcade Expo come to the boisterous convention to play games, bag swag and meet like-minded people, a few take the time to investigate online bullying and why it's so prevalent among the gaming community.
Therapist Stacey Weber, herself a gamer, is a bit mystified.
"It just doesn't make sense," said Weber, who was part of a Saturday talk at PAX Prime called "Not Us, Not Here: Examining Bullying, Harassment and Misogyny."
"When we pick up our games, we delve into these whole new worlds where there's a multitude of various species and ways of being," Weber said. "Difference is the norm, so how come this community seems so intolerant of difference?"
The discussion at the four-day, sold-out convention, which ends Monday and is expected to draw about 85,000 gamers, follows a week of several reports of online harassment of developers and personalities in the gaming community.
"Unfortunately, a lot of the recent conflict is showing us there's a lot of work left to be done," Weber said.
Weber points to research that shows online taunting, popular in "Call of Duty," ''Halo," and other shoot-'em-up games, may come from bullies who enjoy the online anonymity while seeking to reduce their own anxiety and feelings of inadequacy. She said such abuse is no different whether it occurs on the playground or the virtual battlefield.
"The quadrants of harassment don't change from the physical space to the digital space," said therapist Joshua Neal, who joined Weber for the discussion. "The effects are the same."
Neal said that because anonymity is common on the Internet, online activity can become a "fantasyland" for people seeking to spread negativity with fewer repercussions.
He implored PAX Prime attendees to be mindful of the language they use while playing games.
"When our speech directly harms marginalized communities, I think that's something we can stand up for needing to reduce and stop," he said. "Individually, we can parse that stuff out. If we're using misogynistic, homophobic or racist remarks, that has a real impact on stereotypes that get perpetuated in communities where we can see damage occurring."
Despite developers and publishers taking steps to stymie abuse, the name calling, sexual harassment and "swatting" — when a person anonymously files a false police report — continue to persist in the gaming world.
Weber and Neal told PAX Prime attendees that if they observe abuse online, the best response is to show empathy not only toward the person targeted but also toward the tormenters because that might provide them an opportunity to recognize and correct their bad behavior.
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changes to escript/py_src/pdetools.py and /escript/src/Data.h/.cpp to make the Locator work in MPI. escript::Data::mindp now returns a 3 tuple, with the MPI rank of the process on which the minimum value occurs included. escript::Data::convertToNumArrayFromDPNo also takes the ProcNo to perform the MPI reduction. This had to be implemented in both the MPI and non-MPI versions to allow the necesary changes to the Python code in pdetools.py. In the non-MPI version ProcNo is set to 0. This works for the explicit scripts tested thus far, however if it causes problems in your scripts contact Ben or Lutz, or revert the three files (pdetools.py, Data.h and Data.cpp) to the previous version.
Large number of changes to Finley for meshing in MPI. - optimisation and neatening up of rectcanglular mesh generation code - first and second order 1D, 2D and 3D rectangular meshes are now available in finley and escript using MPI. - reduced meshes now generated in MPI, and interpolation to and from reduced data types now supported.
+ Removed nelix_kb_options.py since I no longer have that notebook and as a result it isn't a maintained example of a win32 configuration. coleto_kb_options.py is my new notebooks configuration. Note that this particular set of compilation options target the Core Duo processor (and family relations) and as such won't work on other x86 platforms that don't have the same feature set. See the Intel compiler guide for details on how to target other processors.
+ Updated compilation options for Cognac to squeeze out a bit more performance + Now compiles using the Intel Math headers (mathimf.h) rather than plain math.h on both Win32 and Linux platforms when using the Intel compiler. Gives a small boost to performance on Altix and is essential on Windows
basic code for persistence of jacobeans added. routines are not called yet
Modified nightly testing: Tests run as batch job via cron You can choose to run run_tests or all_tests via command-line argument They use 2 CPUs for run_tests and 4 CPUs for all_tests Log files from tests are saved in /raid3/ksteube/AutoTests/Logs
some modification in the element reordering which should solve some problems caused by the fact that qsort may handels == items differently on different platform.
- removed the need to uncomment #define PASO_MPI when building MPI version, now passed as an argument to the compiler.
Added a timer so we can see how long each test takes to run.
- added directory pythonMPI to the source tree. this directory contains the c++ wrapper that is used to run python scripts in parallel for the MPI version of escript/finley - updated the SConstruct and ./scons/ess_options.py for conditional MPI compilation. To compile the MPI version on ESS uncomment the #define PASO_MPI in ./paso/src/Paso.h and add the command line option useMPI=yes when running scons. - fixed a compile time error in the MPI build in finley/src/CPPAdapter/MeshAdapterFactory.cpp
+ Merge of intelc_win32 branch (revision 741:755) with trunk. Tested on iVEC altix (run_tests and py_tests all pass)
Changes relating to the MPI version of escript The standard OpenMP version of escript is unchanged - updated data types (Finley_Mesh, Finley_NodeFile, etc) to store meshes over multiple MPI processes. - added CommBuffer code in Paso for communication of Data associated with distributed meshes - updates in Finley and Escript to support distributed data and operations on distributed data (such as interpolation). - construction of RHS in MPI, so that simple explicit schemes (such as /docs/examples/wave.py without IO and the Locator) can run in MPI. - updated mesh generation for first order line, rectangle and brick meshes and second order line meshes in MPI. - small changes to trunk/SConstruct and trunk/scons/ess_options.py to build the MPI version, these changes are turned off by default.
+ Added {inc,py,lib}install paths so that when escript builds on ac it installs the build into /home/escript/escript-<put a revision number here>. That way you can just copy this directory into /opt of wherever for someone to install into ac.
+ Options to build on APAC NF ac machine modified to use /home/escript build area. escript builds using its own version of boost and python2.4.3 (and scons for that matter) in this directory rather than using the APAC NF installations. This eases APAC's module management where different groups want slightly different configurations for various modules.
ess_options.py is updated and synchronised with the esys/env module. In turn, this module is used to build and setup the user environments of esys/current and esys/current-debug.
Removed -ansi_alias compiler option to icpc. It was causing the compiler to optimize away the default constructor DataAbstract::DataAbstract and breaking the tests.
+ First cut at build environment for Finley on the APAC National Facility (AC) machine
abstract added in users guide added
latex build documentation is working now
A few changes in the build mechanism and the file structure so scons can build release tar files: * paso/src/Solver has been moved to paso/src * all test_.py are now run_.py files and are assumed to be passing python tests. they can run by scons py_tests and are part of the release test set * escript/py_src/test_ are moved to escript/test/python and are installed in to the build directory (rather then the PYTHONPATH). * all py files in test/python which don't start with run_ or test_ are now 'local_py_tests'. they are installed i by not run automatically. * CppUnitTest is now treated as a escript module (against previous decisions). * scons realse builds nor tar/zip files with relvant source code (src and tests in seperate files) the python tests don't pass yet due to path problems.
pyvisi builds now. tests still to be fixed.
+ Fixed incorrect target path in SConstruct file + cognac now links with g++ compiled boost rather than intelc compiled boost due to compilation errors with intel c. (Finley will still compile and work with intel c though) - this is the same configuration as the access altix
+ cognac now uses installed boost libraries rather than the ones in woo409's home directory
+ NEW BUILD SYSTEM This commit contains the new build system with cross-platform support. Most things work are before though you can have more control. ENVIRONMENT settings have changed: + You no longer require LD_LIBRARY_PATH or PYTHONPATH to point to the esysroot for building and testing performed via scons + ACcESS altix users: It is recommended you change your modules to load the latest intel compiler and other libraries required by boost to match the setup in svn (you can override). The correct modules are as follows module load intel_cc.9.0.026 export MODULEPATH=${MODULEPATH}:/data/raid2/toolspp4/modulefiles/gcc-3.3.6 module load boost/1.33.0/python-2.4.1 module load python/2.4.1 module load numarray/1.3.3
More copyright.
non letter and non digital in hostname ar ereplaced by _ now
papi switched off on altix
eigenvalues: compiles and passes tests on altix now
Scons build options for cognac.ivec.org using intel v9.0.026 compilers Note: Boost is currently not available as a module on cognac. As a result the boost directories used in this build point to my specific boost installation which should be visible to all ivec users. This will get fixed eventually.
more tests on slicing
define epydoc PYTHONPATH setting
define locations of doxygen/epydoc executables
add mechanism to install .h files to inc directories (still need to specify full lists of .h files to install)
fix installation to directories specified by pyinstall and libinstall
minor formatting changes
minor comment and formatting changes
typo fixed
some commends added
The sparse solver can be called by paso now. the building has been change to reduce some code redundancy: now all scons SCscripts are importing scons/esys_options.py which imports platform specific settings.
Updated to allow for building of API documentation.
and a bit more on version detection
include file for python is now detected
add target to run all unit tests, the build will fail for this target if any unit test fails
runUnitTest now returns an error code if the test fails
now load default options - by default!
bruce tests cases are now automatically run whenever they are rebuilt
setup scons configuration to make and install python code
fixed typo in options string
add options file for the prism (not tested yet)
fixed specification of solver libs
fixed specification of solver libs
pass in solver libraries to link with via options files now
another alternative options file
pass in platform specific libraries via options files now
fix compiler options to enable compilation on gcc platforms
added some comments and reasonable default values
add a default options file - basis for other custom options files
fix quoting of library names
first draft of options file for gcc platforms
add names of python and boost libraries to config file
import compile options into bruce unit test builds from options file now
pass in correct options to archiver for static libraries
implement switching of debug compiler options based on command line flag 'debug'
pass in cc/cxx settings from config file
first pass at importing compile options from an external file'
added directory and first draft file to hold options settings for different configurations (debug/nodebug, host, etc)
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Type- Digital AF/AE single-lens reflex camera with built-in flash
Recording Media- SD card, SDHC card, SDXC memory card- Compatible with Ultra High Speed (UHS-I) and Eye-Fi Cards.- Eye-Fi card compatible
Image Format- Approx. 22.3mm x 14.9mm (APS-C)
Compatible Lenses- Canon EF lenses (including EF-S lenses)
Lens Mount- Canon EF mount
Image SensorType- CMOS Sensor
Pixels- Effective pixels: Approx. 18.0 megapixels
Pixel Unit- 4.3 ?m square
Total Pixels- Total pixels: Approx. 18.50 megapixels: 5288 (H) x 3506 (V) pixels
Aspect Ratio- 3:2 (Horizontal : Vertical)
Color Filter System- RGB primary color filters
Low Pass Filter- Fixed position in front of the image sensor
Dust Deletion Feature(1) Self Cleaning Sensor Unit- Removes dust adhering to the low-pass filter. Self-cleaning executed automatically (taking approx. 2 sec.) when power is turned on or off. Manual execution also possible (taking approx. 5 sec.).(2) Dust Delete Data acquisition and appending- The coordinates of the dust adhering to the low-pass filter are detected by a test shot and appended to subsequent images. The dust coordinate data appended to the image is used by the provided software to automatically erase the dust spots.(3) Manual cleaning
Recording SystemRecording Format- Complies with Design rule for Camera File system 2.0 and Exif 2.30
File Size(1) Large: Approx. 17.90 Megapixels (5,184 x 3,456)(2) Medium: Approx. 8.00 Megapixels (3,456 x 2,304)(3) Small 1: Approx. 4.50 Megapixels (2,592 x 1,728)(4) Small 2: Approx. 2.50 Megapixels (1920 x 1280)(5) Small 3: Approx. 0.35 megapixels (720 x 480)(6) RAW: Approx. 17.90 Megapixels (5,184 x 3,456)
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File NumberingThe following three types of file numbering methods can be set:(1) Continuous numbering- The numbering of captured images will continue even after you replace the camera's card.(2) Auto reset- When you replace the camera's card, the numbering will be reset to start from 0001. If the new card already contains images, the numbering will continue from the last recorded image in the card.(3) Manual reset- Resets the file number to 0001, and creates a new folder automatically.
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Color Temperature Compensation- White balance correction:- Blue/amber bias: ?9 levels- Magenta/green bias: ?9 levels- Correction based on the current WB mode's color temperature.
Color Temperature Information Transmission- Provided
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Coverage- Approx. 95% vertically and horizontally (with Eye point approx. 19mm)
Magnification- Approx. 0.87x / 24.5? (50mm lens 8, -1m-1)
Eye Point- Approx. 19 mm (At -1m-1 from the eyepiece lens center)
Dioptric Adjustment Correction- -3.0 to +1.0 m-1 (dpt)
Focusing Screen- Fixed
Mirror- Quick-return half mirror (transmission: reflection ratio of 40:60)
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Depth Of Field Preview- Enabled with depth-of-field preview button
AutofocusType- TTL secondary image-forming, phase-difference detection
AF Points- 9 points (Center AF point is AF cross-type at f/5.6, Center AF point is vertical line-sensitive at f/2.8.)
AF Working Range- Center AF point: EV -0.5 - 18- Other AF points: EV 0.5 - 18 (At room temperature and ISO 100, based on Canon's testing standards)
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Selected AF Point Display- Indicated by superimposed display in the viewfinder and on the LCD monitor
AF Assist Beam(1) Intermittent firing of built-in flash(2) Effective range: Approx. 13.1 ft./4 m. at center, approx. 11.5 ft /3.5 m. at periphery- With an EOS-dedicated Speedlite attached, the Speedlite's AF-assist beam is emitted instead.- Compatible with AF assist-beam (intermittent firing) of 320EX, 270EX II, and 270EX flashes.
Exposure ControlMetering ModesTTL maximum aperture metering with 63-zone metering sensor:1) Evaluative metering (linked to all AF points)2) Partial metering (center, approx. 9% of viewfinder)3) Spot metering (center, approx. 4% of viewfinder)4) Center-weighted average metering
Metering Range- EV 1.0 - EV 20.0 (at 73?F/23?C with 50mm f/1.8 II lens at ISO 100)
Exposure Control Systems
Creative Zone(1) Program AE (shiftable)(2) Shutter-priority AE(3) Aperture-priority AE(4) Manual exposure (including bulb)
Basic zone(1) Scene Intelligent Auto (Program AE / non-shiftable)(2) Flash Off(3) Creative Auto- Effect shots cannot be set simultaneously with Ambience-based shots or background blurring. Neither can continuous shooting or 2 to 10 shots after 10-sec self-timer be used with Effect shot.- When background blurring is set, shooting with flash is disabled. When the flash is raised, background blurring cannot be set.(4) Portrait(5) Landscape(6) Close-up(7) Sports(8) Special scene- Kids- Food- Candlelight- Night Portrait- Handheld Night Scene- HDR Backlight Control mode
ISO Speed RangeFor Stills:1. Manual setting range of ISO 100-12800, expansion to ISO 256002. Auto, ISO 100-6400 (in whole-stop increments)- In Creative Zone modes, the maximum ISO speed (ISO 400, 800, 1600, 3200, or 6400) for ISO Auto can be set.- With Highlight Tone Priority, ISO 200 or higher will be set.
Exposure Compensation- Manual: ?5 stops in 1/3- or 1/2-stop increments- AEB : ?2 stops in 1/3- or 1/2-stop increments- If the exposure compensation exceeds ?2 stops, the left or right icon appears in the viewfinder.- Manual exposure compensation and AEB can be set in combination.- AEB is set in the following sequence: Standard exposure, decreased exposure, and increased exposure.- If AEB is used with the self-timer, the three bracketed shots will be taken in succession after the 10-sec. or 2-sec. delay.
AE Lock(1) Auto AE lock- In the One-Shot AF mode with evaluative metering, AE lock takes effect when focus is achieved.(2) Manual AE lock- In the P, Tv, Av, and M modes, enabled with the AE lock button. (Press again to update.)- Enabled in all metering modes.
ShutterType- Vertical-travel, mechanical, focal-plane shutter with all speeds electronically-controlled- Electronic 1st curtain and mechanical 2nd curtain
Shutter Speeds- 1/4000 to 30 sec. (total shutter speed range; available range varies by shooting mode), bulb, X-sync at 1/200 sec.- Settable in 1/3- or 1/2-stop increments.
Shutter Release- Soft-touch electromagnetic release
Self Timer- 10-sec. or 2-sec. delay
Shutter Lag Time(1) During SW-1 ON, time lag between SW-2 ON and start of exposure: approx. 0.075 sec.- Approx. 0.168 seconds in case of silent shooting.(2) Time lag between simultaneous SW-1/SW-2 ON and start of exposure: Approx. 0.150 sec.- Approx. 0.242 seconds in case of silent shooting.- Time lag with the aperture stopped down by 3 stops or less (Excludes AF operation time).
External SpeedliteFlash Metering- E-TTL II autoflash (evaluative flash metering and average flash metering), FE Lock
Flash Exposure Compensation- ?2 stops in 1/3-stop or 1/2-stop increments
FE Lock- Provided
External Flash Settings(1) External flash function setting- Flash firing, E-TTL II auto flash system, flash mode, wireless master, zoom, sync setting, flash exposure compensation, FEB, and clear setting.- With the 600EX-RT, radio wireless transmission control is possible.(2) External flash C.Fn setting- The actual setting options for (1) and (2) will differ depending on the Speedlite used.
PC Terminal- Not Provided
Drive SystemDrive Modes(1) Single shooting(2) Continuous shooting(3) Silent single shooting(4) Silent continuous shooting- Single silent shooting and continuous silent shooting are not possible when Basic Zone is selected, during Live View shooting, or when using AI Servo AF or AI Focus AF.(5) 10-sec. self-timer/Remote control(6) 2-sec. self-timer(7) Continuous shooting after 10-sec. self-timer (2 to 10 shots)
Continuous Shooting Speed- High-speed continuous shooting: Max. approx. 4.0 fps- With One-Shot AF or AI Servo AF
Silent continuous shooting: Max. approx. 2.5 fps- One-Shot AF only
Maximum Burst- Based on 8GB memory Card: JPEG Large/Fine: Approx. 28 Shots, RAW: Approx. 7 Shots, RAW+JPEG
Large/Fine: 4 Shots- Based on UHS-I memory card: JPEG Large/Fine: Approx. 1140 Shots, RAW: Approx. 8 Shots, RAW +
JPEG Large/Fine: 4 Shots- Figures are based on Canon's testing standards (ISO 100 and Standard Picture Style).- At ISO 12800, maximum burst will greatly decrease due to internal processing.
Live View FunctionsShooting Modes- Still photo shooting and video shooting
Focusing(1) AF operation of the Hybrid CMOS AF, One-shot AFi. Face Detection plus Tracking AFii. FlexiZone - Multi- 31 zones- AF at the touched zoneiii. FlexiZone - Single
(2) TTL secondary image-forming, phase-difference detection with AF operation, One-shot AFi. Manual selectionii. Auto selection- Automatically set in Basic Zone modes
(3) Manual focus- Manual focusing by enlarging images by approx. five to ten times
Metering Modes- Real-time evaluative metering with image sensor.(1) Evaluative metering (315 zones)(2) Partial metering (approx. 10.3% of Live View screen)(3) Spot metering (approx. 2.6% of Live View screen)(4) Center-weighted average metering- AE lock possible. The active metering time can be changed.
Metering Range- EV 0 to EV 20 (At room temperature, 50mm f/1.4 lens, ISO 100)
Grid Display- Two grids provided:(1) Grid 1: Pair of vertical and horizontal lines(2) Grid 2: 5 vertical and 3 horizontal lines
Exposure Simulation- Provided
Silent Shooting- Provided
Video ShootingFile FormatMOV:Movie: MPEG-4 AVC / H.264- Variable (average) bit rateAudio: Linear PCM- Meta information is embedded in the MOV file (no separate THM file)
File Size- Recording Size:[Full HD] 1920 x 1080 (30 fps/25 fps/24 fps): 330 MB/min.[HD] 1280 x 720 (60 fps/50fps): 330 MB/min.[SD] 640 x 480 (30 fps/25fps): 82.5 MB/min.- If the file size exceeds 4GB, a new file will be automatically created.- SD Class 6 or higher required.
Frame Rates- 1920 x 1080 (Full HD): 30p (29.97) / 24p (23.976) / 25p- 1280 x 720 (HD): 60p (59.94) / 50p- 640 x 480 (SD): 30p (29.97) / 25p
Continuous Shooting TimeBased on 8GB Memory Card:[1920 x 1080] 30 fps/25 fps/24 fps: 22 min.[1280 x 720] 60 fps/50 fps: 22 min.[640 x 480] 30 fps/25 fps: 1 hr. 32 min.
Based on 16GB Memory Card:[1920 x 1080] 30 fps/25 fps/24 fps: 44 min.[1280 x 720] 60 fps/50 fps: 44 min.[640 x 480] 30 fps/25 fps: 3 hr. 4 min.- If recording time reaches 29 min. 59 sec., movie shooting stops automatically.
Focusing(1) One-shot AF(2) Servo AF(3) Manual Focus- Magnify the image by approx. 5x or appox. 10x and focus manually.
AF using AF point selection:i. Face Detection plus Tracking AFii. FlexiZone - Multi- 31 zones- AF at the touched zoneiii. FlexiZone - Single
Range- 8 bit, 0 - 255
Exposure Control(1) Program AE for movie shooting- In Basic Zone modes, P, Av, and Tv modes- Shutter speed 1/30 - 1/4000 sec. (Signal accumulation time), aperture, and ISO speed automatically set.(2) Manual exposure- Shutter speed (signal accumulation time), aperture, and ISO speed (auto/manual) manually set. The shutter speed (signal accumulation time) is limited to 1/4000 sec. at the maximum and to 1/30 sec. at the minimum for 24/25/30 fps or 1/60 sec. or higher for 50/60 fps.
Exposure CompensationProvided (?3 stops in 1/3-stop increments)- For movies, exposure compensation will not be applied beyond ?3 stops even if the exposure compensation has been set beyond ?3 stops.- For still photo shooting, the exposure compensation can be set and applied up to ?5 stops.
LCD MonitorType- TFT color, liquid-crystal monitor with Touch Panel LCD (capacitive type)
Monitor Size- Wide 3.0-inch (Screen aspect ratio of 3:2)- 7.7cm diagonal (6.4cm wide, 4.3cm high)
Pixels- Approx. 1,040,000 dots
Coverage- Approx. 100%
Brightness Control- Adjustable to one of seven brightness levels
Coating- Anti-smudge coating
Interface Languages- 25 (English, German, French, Dutch, Danish, Portuguese, Finnish, Italian, Norwegian, Swedish, Spanish, Greek, Russian, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Turkish, Arabic, Thai, Simplified/Traditional Chinese, Korean, Japanese)
PlaybackDisplay Format(1) Single image display- Single image, basic information, detailed information, histogram display(2) Index display- 4/9/36/100 images(3) Jump display (Image jump w/ Main Dial)- 1/10/100 images, by date, by folder, movies only, stills only, by rating
Highlight Alert- On the detailed information and histogram displays, highlight areas with no image data will blink.
Histogram- Brightness / RGB
Quick Control FunctionDuring shooting:- When you press the Quick Control function button under the following conditions, you can set the functions below:- The settable functions depend on the shooting mode(1) With viewfinder shooting:- Shutter speed, aperture, ISO speed, exposure compensation/ AEB, flash exposure compensation, Picture Style, White balance, White balance correction/White balance bracketing, Auto Lighting Optimizer, Metering mode, AF operation, Drive mode/Self-timer, image-recording quality, Flash firings, Ambience-based shots, Light/scene-based shots, Extra Effect Shot, Background blurring, Special scene modes, and Color tone.(2) With Live View shooting:- AF method, Drive mode/Self-timer, Metering mode, image-recording quality, White balance, Picture Style, Auto Lighting Optimizer, Creative Filter, Flash firing, Ambience-based shots, Light/scene-based shots, Extra Effect Shot, Special scene modes, and Color tone.(3) With video shooting:- AF method, Drive mode/Self-timer, image-recording quality, movie-recording size, video snapshot, White balance, Picture Style, Auto Lighting Optimizer, and Miniature effect movie.
During Playback:- When you press the Quick Control function button under the following conditions, you can set the functions below:(1) During still photo playback:- Image protect, image rotate, rating, Creative Filters, resize, Cropping, and image jump with Main Dial(2) During movie playback:- Image protect, rating, and image jump with Main Dial
Image Protection and EraseProtection- Erase protection can be applied/canceled for a single image, all images in a folder, or all images on the card
Erase- Erase single image, erase selected images, erase all images in folder, erase all images on a card, or erase only unprotected images
Direct PrintingCompatible Printers- PictBridge-compatible printers
Printable Images- RAW, JPEG, and RAW+JPEG images complying to Design rule for Camera File System- Movies cannot be printed.
DPOF: Digital Print Order FormatDPOF- Complies to DPOF Version 1.1
Direct Image TransferCompatible Images- Not Provided
CustomizationCustom Functions- Eight Custom Functions with 24 settings settable with the camera
Custom Controls- Not Provided
My Menu Registration- Up to six top-tier menu options and Custom Function settings can be registered
InterfaceUSB Terminal- For personal computer communication and PictBridge (Hi-Speed USB)
Video Out TerminalHDMI mini OUT terminal:- Type C (Switches automatically to suit the resolution)- Video output: 1080/60i, 1080/50i, 480/60p, 576/50p- Switches automatically to 1, 2, 3, or 4 to suit the TV
Extension System Terminal- Not Provided
Power SourceBattery- Battery Pack LP-E12 x 1- With the AC Adapter Kit ACK-E15, AC power is possible.
Battery Check- Automatic battery level check when power is turned ON.- Battery level indicated in one of four levels on LCD monitor.
Power Saving- Power turns off after the set time of non-operation elapses[Auto power off] settable to 30 sec., 1 min., 2 min., 4 min., 8 min., 15 min. or disable
Date/Time Battery- Built-in secondary battery. When fully-charged, the date/time can be maintained for about three months.
Start-up Time- Approx. 0.1 sec. (Based on CIPA testing standards)
Dimensions and WeightDimensions (W x H x D)- Approx. 4.60 x 3.57 x 2.74 in.1 / 116.8 x 90.7 x 69.4mm1- Weight specifications and dimensions are for camera body only; does not include battery or memory card.
Weight- Approx. 14.36 oz. / 407g (CIPA standard)- Approx. 13.06 oz.1 / 370g1 (Body only)- Weight specifications and dimensions are for camera body only; does not include battery or memory card.
Operating EnvironmentWorking Temperature Range- 32-104?F/0-40?C
Working Humidity Range- 85% or less- All data are based on Canon's Standard Test Method. Subject to change without notice.
Lens Specifications
Designed for high-quality still image and video capture while being compact and lightweight, the new EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM lens features the optics, AF and image stabilization necessary for shooting in any number of situations. For brilliant image quality it has one high-precision aspheric lens to reduce chromatic aberration throughout the zoom range. It features optimized lens coatings to ensure exceptional color balance while minimizing ghosting and flare and a 7-blade circular aperture to ensure beautiful, soft backgrounds. For outstanding performance, the EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM lens perfectly complements the Movie Servo AF feature found on select EOS Cameras with a compact six-group zoom system and a new stepping motor and focus mechanism to deliver smooth and quiet continuous AF during movie shooting. Still photography benefits from a high-speed CPU and an optimized AF algorithm. Full-time manual focus is available in AF mode and the front element does not rotate during focus, perfect for use with polarizing filters. Handheld photography is enhanced by the lens' Optical Image Stabilizer system, offering the equivalent of four stops of compensation. Compact and highly versatile, it is the ideal lens to carry anywhere.
Focal Length & Maximum Aperture- 18-55mm 1:3.5-5.6
Lens Construction- 13 elements in 11 groups
Diagonal Angle of View- 74? 20' - 27? 50'
Focus Adjustment- Inner focusing system
Closest Focusing Distance- 0.82 ft. / 0.25m
Filter Size- 58mm
Max. Diameter x Length, Weight- 2.7 x 3.0 inches, approx. 7.2 oz. /69.0 x 75.2mm, approx. 205g


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Kidnappers target Christians in Egyptian province
MATAI, Egypt — Ezzat Kromer's resistance to his kidnappers did not last long. One of the masked gunmen fired a round between his feet as he sat behind the wheel of his car and said with chilling calm, "The next one will go into your heart."
The Christian gynecologist says he was bundled into his abductors' vehicle, forced to lie under their feet in the back seat for a 45-minute ride, then dumped in a small cold room while his kidnappers contacted his family over a ransom.
For the next 27 hours, he endured beatings, insults and threats to his life, while blindfolded, a bandage sealing his mouth and cotton balls in his ears.
Kromer's case is part of a dramatic rise of kidnappings targeting Christians, including children, in Egypt's southern province of Minya, home to the country's largest concentration of Christians but also a heartland for Islamist hard-liners.
The kidnappings are mostly blamed on criminal gangs, which operate more freely amid Egypt's collapse in security since the 2011 fall of autocrat Hosni Mubarak.
Crime has risen in general across Egypt, hitting Muslims as well. But the wave of kidnappings in Minya has specifically targeted Christians, and victims, church leaders and rights activists ultimately blame the atmosphere created by the rising power of hard-line Islamists.
They contend criminals are influenced by the rhetoric of radical clerics depicting Egypt's Christian minority as second-class citizens and see Christians as fair game, with authorities less likely to investigate crimes against the community.
Over the past two years, there have been more than 150 reported kidnappings in the province — all of them targeting Christians, according to a top official at the Interior Ministry, which is in charge of the police.
Of those, 37 have been in the last several months alone, the official told the Associated Press, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release the information.
Kromer, a father of three, was snatched on Jan. 29 as he drove home from his practice in the village of Nazlet el-Amoden. By the next day, his family paid 270,000 Egyptian pounds — nearly $40,000 — to a middleman and he was released.
"I cannot begin to tell you how horrifying that experience was," Kromer told the Associated Press in his hometown of Matai, 110 miles (180 kilometers) south of Cairo. His left cheek where he was punched repeatedly is still sore, as is his index finger, which one kidnapper repeatedly bent back, threatening to break it.
He says he was left with the feeling that, as a Christian, the country is no longer for him. He has abandoned his profitable practice in Nazlet el-Amoden and is making preparations to move to Australia. "My wife would not even discuss leaving Egypt. Now she is on board," he said.
"There are consequences to Islamist rule," he ruefully said. "Things are bad now. What is coming will certainly be worse."
Responding to the allegations that authorities do not aggressively investigate crimes against Christians, Minya's security chief Ahmed Suleiman said it is because victims' families negotiate with kidnappers rather than report the abductions.
"We cannot be held responsible for kidnappings that are not reported to us," he said, blaming hardened criminals for the kidnappings.SClB
Christians say they don't bother to report because they have no confidence in the police.
Essam Khairy, a spokesman for the hard-line Islamist group Gamaa Islamiya in Minya, said "there is not a single case of Christian kidnapping that has a sectarian motive or linked to the Islamist groups."
He blamed the "security chaos" in Egypt and said the way to stop kidnappings is to create popular committees — vigilante groups that the Gamaa Islamiya has been promoting since a spate of strikes in the police last month.
Egypt's Christians, followers of one of the world's most ancient churches, make up about 10 percent of the country's estimated 90 million people. They have long complained of discrimination that keeps them out of some top jobs and of inadequate protection by authorities.
But their fears have dramatically escalated with the political rise of Islamists. Election victories vaulted Islamist political parties to domination of parliament, and President Mohammed Morsi is a veteran of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Islamists in Minya and elsewhere in Egypt insist they do not discriminate against Christians. Morsi has repeatedly asserted the equality of Muslims and Christians. Last month, a hard-line cleric was referred to trial for insulting religion for anti-Christian comments.
The governor of Minya, Mustafa Kamel Issa, a Brotherhood member, has met several times with Christian leaders in the province and has spoken of encouraging "a consciousness of tolerance" among Christians and Muslims.
Still, ultraconservative Muslim clerics have become more overt in anti-Christian rhetoric in sermons and on religious TV stations. In rural areas like Minya, hard-liners often hold sway after decades of persecution, taking advantage of the chaos and lawlessness of the two years since Mubarak's ouster to flex their muscles as the only real power on the ground.
The Brotherhood and its political party frequently underline their respect for Christian rights. But at times members reveal an attitude suggesting a second-class status for the community.
On Wednesday, Yasser Hamza, an official in the Brotherhood's party, argued in a TV interview that while the campaign slogan "Islam is the solution" is permissible, the slogan "Christianity is the solution" would not be. He was addressing specific election rules, but then broadly declared, "This is an Islamic nation with an overwhelming Muslim majority ... The minority doesn't have absolute rights, it has relative rights."
In Minya, Christians make up an estimated 35 percent of the population of around 4 million, the highest percentage of any province in Egypt. In the 1990s, it and other parts of the south were the heartland of the insurgency of Islamic militants who attacked police and Christians in a campaign to create an Islamic state that was crushed by Mubarak's security forces. Now, those groups have forsworn violence and have political parties, and they wield a powerful influence.
Beyond kidnappings, Christians here say they are targeted by other criminals, including thugs who squat on Christian-owned land and refuse to leave until paid or gangs who run protection rackets targeting the community's businesses.
Ahmed Salah Shabib, a rights activist from Minya, said criminals are convinced they will not be held accountable.
"They feel that there is a political cover for their actions. Additionally, they see the Christians as second-class citizens to whom they can do whatever they want with impunity," he said.
Father Estephanos of the Coptic Orthodox Church in Samalout, a town that has seen multiple kidnappings, says the state has indirectly encouraged crime against Christians by not prosecuting Muslims blamed for attacks on churches and Christian-owned homes and business around the country.
"The state has made Christian blood cheap," he told the AP at his office, as he dealt with the latest kidnapping: a young boy, Andrew, who was snatched from his father's arms on a Samalout street a day earlier.
"Do you have news about Andrew?" he asked the boy's uncle on the telephone. "Did you hear his voice? Are the negotiations underway already?"
Estephanos said the kidnappers wanted a ransom equivalent to about $103,000 from the family, which has a lucrative animal feed business.
"The Islamists see Christians as a people who have no rights or even as non-citizens," he said.
The Interior Ministry official acknowledged that Christians are seen as less defended.
"Kidnapping Christians is an easy way to make money," he said. They "don't have the tribal or clan backup that will deter kidnappers and they are happy to pay the ransom to gain the freedom of their loved ones."
Christians also say they are seeing an increase in the disappearance of Christian underage girls, who are later found out to have converted to Islam and married Muslim men. They accuse conservative clerics of encouraging conversions, which often ignite deadly fights between families that can turn into a cycle of blood feuds.
Christian farmer Ishaq Aziz's 17-year-old daughter Nirmeen went missing on Valentine's Day, fueling speculation that she has converted and will reappear with a Muslim husband once she turns 18.
Aziz, 47, and his family are preparing for that day. They have sold some farmland to buy firearms, and Aziz explained matter-of-factly that Nirmeen and her husband will be killed first — "it is a question of honor" — and then the guns will turn against the groom's family.
"But we will happily take her back if she comes back with her faith intact," he said. "Even if she is pregnant, a cousin will marry her," he said, wiping a tear with the sleeve of his dark blue galabiya robe.


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Black Friday – a movie review
This film is a brilliant cinematic portrayal of the 1993 serial bomb blasts in Mumbai which killed 257 people and injured over 1,000 people. The film is based on a book by the same name and talks of actual people and events – the reason why the film was delayed until the legal battle was over. Anurag Kashyap, the director gives you get all the answers here. How the blasts happened. Why they happened. And who carried them out.
It must have been a difficult film to make as there were hundreds of people involved in the blasts, they had different motivations, and it was not just the terrorists, but the police who were guilty too. Guilty of ignoring intelligence reports, taking bribes to let the RDX through and then during the investigation not hesitating to use torture to get suspects to talk. The film explores the reasons why some of the main characters did what they did and the setting is very real. The director manages to recreate Mumbai in 1993…there were no cell phones or satellite television(they actually showed the video news magazine Newstrack!) and the cars on the road were Maruti 1000's. Mumbai today is a vastly different world. Yet, the film was shot on the streets of Mumbai. The director has said in an interview that quite a few of the scenes of the city were shot with hidden cameras to get the real feel of the city.
The actors lived up to the realism portrayed by the director. Everyone played their parts very well. Kaykay Menon plays the investigating officer Rakesh Maria, Pawan Malhotra plays Tiger Memon who masterminds the blasts, and Aditya Srivastava plays Badshah Khan, the terrorist who decides to talk. Vijay Maurya has a small role as Dawood Ibrahim but does a very eeyrie and fantastic representation of Dawood. The others who were involved in the blasts were Yakub Memon (Imtiaz), Yeda Yakub (Dibyendu Bhattacharya), Javed Chikna (Arbaaz Ali Khan) and Anwar Theba (Pankaj Jha).
I would not classify this film as entertainment though. Although it is dramatic and moves fast, it has a documentary feel to it. There is no protagonist and the movie moves from one character to another, from scene to flashback, flashback to scene, from village to city, from city to city, from India to Dubai to Pakistan and back. It gets a little confusing at times. The flashbacks specially. One has to concentrate. It is important not to miss the dialogues either. Like any detective flick, if one misses one link in the chain, the next scene makes less sense.
There are no songs and no dances. This is a different kind of Bollywood thriller.
The film has a lot of gory scenes. Rivers of blood, flesh torn out, ghastly expressions, dead bodies, and at times the scenes of torture make you feel like vomiting. Certainly not a movie for kids.
Although Black Friday is not entertainment, the film is worth seeing for those interested in finding out how terrorists think and why they do what they do. This reasoning is delivered a bit simplistically ofcourse. In a film there is less time and a lot to tell, unlike in a book. However I still felt that the film was a little too long. Three hours of this is too long.
The message of the film is delivered subtly but comes through clearly. Violence is not just evil, against God, but also needless. It is said more than once that Allah does not support those who kill innocents.
August 29, 2009 11:21 pm
I saw this movie finally. God…it was long. And yes, I'm glad they had no songs. I also felt that the dramatizations were deliberately played down at times – took away the reality a bit, just a bit. Stressful situations will not let a person remain calm and cool in the manner they talk. There were scenes showing the investigating police officer suffering tensions of conscience in the manner in which investigatons are conducted. That was a good thing to show. Too many names were thrown in. I had to simply summarize it as 'this man was connected to that' and continue watching and making sense. I don't think I'll recommend this movie though. It's too long. Goddammit, it should have been cut down to 2 hours max.
August 29, 2009 11:38 pm
I know of NGOs working on submiting draft legislation for police reform. I believe the police in India are thuggish. Terrorism, despite needing dire measures, does not justify the general brutishness of the police that is characteristic of them even in petty crimes. Torture is torture, terrorism or no terrorism. It has to be battled against.
August 29, 2009 11:58 pm
I have been among very religious muslims – they pray 5 times and more (there are a lot of supererogatory prayers besides the mandatory 5), fast in Ramadan and more ( there are supererogatory fasts outside Ramadan too) and avoid non-halal food like the plague. They are even pan-islamists in their thinking and support Jihad in principle. When I compared the kind of "jihadi" muslims shown in this movie with the kind I know, there is no comparison at all. The people I know are very strong in character, never abuse, never lie, speak very candidly, are very respectful of elders, never backbite; in short, they have impeccable personal conduct. The supposedly relgious and jihadi muslims shown in this movie, did not appear religious at all to me by character, although they knew the rhetoric of jihad.


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January 10th, 2011
Gupta: What helped Giffords survive brain shot
CNN's Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta is a practicing trauma neurosurgeon and associate chief of neurosurgery at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta.
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is in critical condition on a ventilator after being shot through the back of the left side of her head, yet doctors are "cautiously optimistic" about her survival. That she is alive at all is surprising to many people, but people survive these types of injuries more often than you may think.
While every patient and injury is different, on average – around 2/3 of patients with a gunshot wound (GSW) to the head don't live long enough to make it to the hospital. Of the third that do make it, only 50% of those patients survive longer than 30 days. And of course, those numbers say nothing of long-term neurological function in the survivors.
So far, according to her doctors, Giffords is likely to be in the small minority of patients who will beat the odds. So, what placed those odds in her favor?
First off, she received very quick care, and was in the operating room within 38 minutes after arriving at the hospital. Her overall health and youth also provide some benefit. The injury was a "through and through" injury, meaning there was both an entry and exit wound. That's significant because some of the energy of the bullet was dissipated into space, as opposed to all within her cranial cavity.
Neurosurgeons will want to know if the bullet passed across the midline of the brain. If it does, there is a much poorer likelihood of survival. In Giffords' case, it did not. Other positive factors: Her blood pressure didn't drop as a result of the bleeding, and the oxygen supply in her body was maintained, according to her doctors that I interviewed.
Finally, the fact Giffords was "following commands" even before she had an operation was a very positive sign.
To follow commands signifies a higher level of brain function than simple reflexive movement. It indicates that she was able to hear the command. She was able to process the meaning of that command, and finally, she was able to execute the command. I spoke to Dr. Randall Friese, the trauma surgeon who examined Giffords when she arrived at the hospital. He told me she was clearly able to understand him, and squeezed his hand when asked to do so. And, after the operation, Giffords was still able to follow commands.
During an operation like this, doctors want to control bleeding, remove fragments of bone that have penetrated the brain, and remove any dead brain tissue along the trajectory of the bullet.
Also, her neurosurgeon, Dr. Michael Lemole, removed additional bone on the left side of her head, as I explain in the video above. That is called a craniectomy, and is done to prevent the catastrophic consequences of brain swelling, which is a big and real concern over the next several days. Think of it like this: Unlike organs in others parts of your body, if the brain swells, it has no place to expand - as it is confined by the rigid skull. Because Lemole removed portions of the skull, he provided extra room for the brain to swell. Incidentally, the bone that's removed is saved, and put back in the head during a future operation.
In medicine and surgery, doctors are reluctant to quote statistics, because every patient is a true individual –that includes Gabrielle Giffords. And, no doubt, Giffords is not "out of the woods" yet. But, "cautiously optimistic" sounds pretty good after an injury as devastating as this one.
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DHS forced labor camps were built for?
A.) Foreign Terrorists
B.) Greedy Jews
C.) Lazy Americans
D) Nobody because they're imaginary.
Hey!! Shut up!! Just cuz youre stupid with your money...
If you guessed C you are correct but you had to guess because you chose to be ignorant of over 850 DHS forced labor camps being built in N. America since 9/11.
If you guessed D you'd be correct because they're the product of my imagination. Anyone who isn't me belongs there dontcha know.
How many millions of crooked US citizens are there now?
Are the crooks mostly
A.) Fat
B.) Stupid
C.) Lazy
D.) All of the above
How many people do I hate? D. All of the above. Why? Cuz I CAN. Replaces the felling of hopelessness I have that nobody gives a crap about me. L O L
ONE, ah ah ah. TWO ah ah ah.
Bad Paki oder around here
Oh dear, my phussy is throbbing. Banasy can you spray some nitrogen pls. I be your friend.
Never mind. I just P.I.ssed on Modi's face and rubbed it. All better.
You are one heck of a naughty girl chrissy. You need to get laid ever so often.
Per CNN statistics, 60% of men in India think that raiping and burning wife alive for dowry is acceptable. That is about 420 Million men !!!! That is more than the population of USA !!!!
I doubt you really mean that.
Kimj Jong Un just grabbed India's Modi and fukked him from behind. Modi was rushed to Pyongyang Presbyterian to have his rectum sutured.
Hogwash. Everyone knows Asians have small penises.
My name is Shankar and I am ashamed to be an Indian. My mama sent me a tiffin box . When I opened it there was a note from her. She asked me to go raype some girls in India tonight. I told her NO. I will now follow Islam's teaching and respect girls. My name is Shanku and I am considering converting to Islam.
Lazy, fat, stupid, ugly.
Yes I am. I'm ashamed to be American. Kill me!! Please! L O L
That's not very nice.
Good decision @Shankar. I am mighty proud of you.
L O L can I lick you banasy?
Too lazy to even do an image search on Google and see pics of the over 850 forced labor camps built in America since 9/11.
Only believes official versions of news stories.
Is fat, stupid, lazy, and ugly and carries extra condoms.
...actually thinks the U.S. Consti tuition gives drug addicts the right to have a gun. (No kidding)
Contrary to popular belief, the 2nd Amendment does not guaranteegun ownership to anyone.
So, who thinks that, exactly? Since you are pretending you know.
Oh, your just making up useless generalizations based on your imagination?
We know. We know.
The 2nd Amendment does not guarantee gun ownership to anyone.
(No kidding.)
It is people like @Blue Saffron who make our world great and meaningful. I miss his presence and effulgence.
Truly believes personalities are more important than principles, (No, Rupert. Not your grade school principal)
And yet you bring us up all the time, you bloody hypocrite. You just did it above, FFS.
Stop throwing your flaming spitballs at us all the time. Live by what you preach. But you will not, because you truly believe the behavior you bitch about is perfectly acceptable if it is YOU doing it.
Ok boys and girls. Good job today in posting such wonderful comments.
Keep up the good work. 🙂
Shut the heck up you stupid mouse.
See you next time. And please. Stay safe. All of you.
All of you. Even you crooked bassterds. Stay safe until DHS rounds you up and tosses you lazy "folks" into forced labor camps built since 9/11.
Hage. (Have a good evening. That, or french hag)
Hah! Found you. Now get you butt home and make me dinner Mickey. And after you do the dishes fix that leaking faucet would you? And pick up an extra box of condoms. The kids are all going out tonight.
Wow. You CNN pro-sodomy pro-deathers hammered the heck out of my personal s/n today. Was prolly barndaisy, chrussty, pupert and fat Adam again.
Oh, shut up, you tedious, emasculated, ineffectual little shit. Your paranoia is indicative of your deep, all-consuming psychosis.
Lol. 🙂
Do you think it's nice to per vert Joey Isotta-Fraschini's name? Of course not. Be nice please.
Should drug addicts be allowed to have guns? LMAO. Of course not you idiots
Testicular cancer.
I guess now is as good a time as any to finish my true story of Adolph Hiltler and exactly what it was that caused Americans to become fat and stupid and addicted to drugs after WWII.
Now. Where was I before I was so rudely interrupted....
...oh yeah! US Navy vs. German flying saucers.
In 1947, Admiral Richard E. Byrd led 4,000 military troops from the U.S., Britain and Australia in an invasion of Antarctica called "Operation Highjump", and at least one follow-up expedition.
That is fact. It is undeniable. But... the part of the story that is seldom told, at least in "official" circles, is that Byrd and his forces encountered heavy resistance to their Antarctic venture from German flying saucers and had to call off the invasion.
That same year (1947) both civilian and military eye witnesses found a German made flying saucer crashed near Roswell, New Mexico with 4 surgically altered Jewish women laying dead next to it. A placard on the saucer clearly stated "Army of Women" in an ancient Aryan dialect. Profiteers swooped-down and started hollering "UFO!!!" for profit. Not truth. The US tinfoil hat brigade was born and is today fatter and stupider than ever.
After the puppet Adolph Hitler's death was faked...much like ex-CIA agent Usama Bin Laden's was...US and Soviet troops stole whatever they could get their hands on. Including BMW flying saucers and priceless works of art. And many virginities. US government operation "Paperclip" smuggled those German made flying saucers into the USA as did the USSR government into what we now call Russia. The two superpowers then faked a "Cold War" as an excuse to bilk taxpayers out of over 60 trillion dollars in order to build underground manufacturing facilities such as "Area 51" in order to replicate and refine NAZI flying saucers.
You are seriously positing that AH's death was faked.
Jesus wept.
And you have the gall to call others the tinfoil hat brigade without a trace of irony.
If you think flying saucers are made by and flown by little green men from outer space you probably vote too. Dumb dumb dumb.
Now. Why would the US and Russian government want to build thousands of flying saucers. Why did Nero burn Rome? Why did Hitler torch The Reichstag? Why did the Bush and Bin Laden families finance 9/11, in other words.
Blue Saffron is my favorite. My hero.
One day you will see hundreds of flying saucers attacking your community. They will be firing old Tesla-tech "blue beams" at your cars and trucks. But unless 10% ethanol is added to your gasoline Tesla's Blue Beam cannot make gasoline ignite. You WILL actually think that aliens are invading. But it will be your own governments, and saucers flown by kidnapped Playstation and XBOX master gamers altered to look like little green men.
You WILL see this in a very few short years. Nobody but me on earth is warning about it, btw.
You see, a man named Nikola Tesla developed an energy beam that could light-up a light bulb from over 10 miles away many decades ago. He found that unless he added 10% ethanol to gasoline his blue beam could not make a car's gas tank explode. A few weeks later he died mysteriously and everything he owned was confiscated by government men who a few decades later started requiring you to mix exactly 10% ethanol with your gasoline.


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Madonna tops Forbes' 2013 list of top-earning women in music, making a whopping $125 million this year.
Is she robbing banks or something?
Most of Madonna's earnings came from the last leg of her MDNA Tour, which grossed $305 million. She also rakes it in with merchandise sales, her Material Girl clothing line and her fragrance, Truth or Dare.
That's whole lot of Madonna, right there.
Lady Gaga finished No. 2 on the list, making $80 million. According to Rolling Stone, that number was calculated before the release of her latest record, 'Artpop,' and includes earnings from her 'Born This Way Ball' tour, which was shortened after the singer canceled a number of shows due to an injured hip that required surgery.
Taylor Swift finished third, pulling down $55 million, thanks to the huge sales of her last record, 'Red' (1.2 million in its first week), while Beyonce came in fourth, with $53 million. Jennifer Lopez finished fifth, with $45 million.
The rest of the top 10 included Rihanna ($43 million), Katy Perry ($39 million), Pink ($32 million), Carrie Underwood ($31 million) and Nicki Minaj and Mariah Carey, who tied for the 10th spot with $29 million each.
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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Thieves are slowing down the Kansas and Oklahoma Railroad.
Railroad officials say engineers discovered huge packs of batteries stolen out of two of its locomotives on Monday. The thefts occurred while the engines were sitting in the company's rail yard.
Railroad spokesman Jimmy Patterson says each case is worth $8,000 to $10,000.
KAKE-TV reports the same thing happened to the railroad in January, when someone stole the 300-pound batteries from locomotives at night.
Patterson says it not only stops the railroad's work but also leaves employees at a standstill until the batteries can be replaced.


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Microsoft's Entertainment and Devices reporting division has steadily grown in the past decade, thanks in part to the growing Xbox 360 business. In the last quarter of calendar 2012, Xbox 360 sales fell hard year-on-year, but those losses were mitigated by the surprisingly stable Xbox Live. Microsoft's online gaming network, with its 46 million Xbox Live Gold premium subscribers paying as much as $60 per year for service, continues to fuel the Entertainment and Devices division even as its growth slows during the console transition. Microsoft pulled off an impressive feat: It's got people paying for services like online multiplayer gaming when they're free everywhere else, like on Sony's PlayStation Network. No wonder Sony is considering, after seven years of free PlayStation Network service, borrowing Xbox Live's pricing structure on the PlayStation 4.
"As more and more services and contents become available digitally, we'll have more of an option to create attractive packages. So hypothetically we can look at different models, like a cable TV company," Sony Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida told The Guardian, "We could have gold, silver, or platinum levels of membership, something like that. We can do subscription services when we have more content, especially now that we have the Gaikai technology available. With one subscription you have access to thousands of games—that's our dream."
Sony does already have a pay service for the PlayStation Network, the nearly three-year-old PlayStation Plus service. But between 2010 and 2012, Sony had trouble conveying the value of its $50 per year service. At E3 2012 though, Sony announced a massive overhaul of PlayStation Plus that provides a better look at what the PlayStation 4's membership tiers may include. Now Sony offers a selection of downloadable retail and PlayStation Network-only games for free alongside a PlayStation Plus subscription. There are a limited number available at any given time, but one they're downloaded, they remain playable for as long as a PlayStation Plus membership lasts.
Sony could feasibly offer Silver PlayStation Network members limited or no access to Gaikai streaming, Gold members full access to streaming, and Platinum members access to both streaming and free downloadable games that could be locally stored and supported by the PS Vita local Remote Play that streams those games to the handheld.
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Deflection of attention from Indian Occupied Kashmir will not make the problem go away. In fact it is turning India into a living hell. You can abuse all you want. You must be ashamed, helpless and frustrated. Instead of wasting time abusing, why don't you go help your fellow hindoos who are being swept away by the floods like mud and dirt. Go feed the starving in India. Go tell your government to stop the genocide in Kashmir. Hold plebiscite in Kashmir in accordance with UN resolutions
Exactly! What is taking soooo long?
Fat welfare hogs in Mississippi stink. Any questions?
According to CNN, India has now started killing civilians along the border. These are indigenous Kashmiris. I am not surprised. The Indians have been killing them for 70 years. Maybe someday the world will notice. Till then the Kashmiris in Indian Occupied Kashmir will keep fighting for their freedom just the way the French Resistance did from the Nazis during WW2
Where are the Navy Seals when you need them? Send the Navy Dolphins instead to invade India and hold plebiscite in Indian Held Kashmir.
You heard it.
It took Putin of Russia a week to hold plebiscite in Crimea. India has not been able to accomplish this in 70 years in Indian Occupied Kashmir. YES, 70 YEARS !! RUB YOUR EYES !!!
Scotland held its plebiscite in a day !!!
The concept is no different than what we Americans are doing in Puerto Rico. Let the people decide their fate. This is what democracy is all about.
Unlike what hindoos did in Indian Occupied Kashmir, we Americans didn't send in the Army to Puerto Rico to occupy it and raype the people.
The counter argument to that is democracy only works in educated societies. Does India know what democracy is? I would like to hear from Indian trolls.
The time has come for Muslims in India to rise and demand a separate independent state for themselves. Where they can live in dignity, in peace, in a civilized culture and not under Hindu subjugation. We have seen the fear in your eyes and the quiver in your voices. From the ashes of India shall rise the Phoenix.
The western world and Americans support a separate state for the Muslims in India. A state based on democratic principles , capitalism, a belief in the unity of god .
I fully support this notion.
India is a diseased country and devouring our precious resources and not producing enough. On top of that you hindus are massacring minorities including Christians. We cannot accept that.
Listen, ISIS \ Syria\ India are piece of the same puzzle and no discussion of one can take place without discussion of the other. Get that Fareed? Now go find your roots in India and see for yourself how your ancestors were subjugated and suffocated by India.
I am so glad to see some meaningful discussion take place on this forum rather than the soap opera of that one person with multiple IDs and stolen names.
@Blue Saffron shall me mighty proud. Our hero. I am from South America.
I am back and monitoring the landscape. I will spring into action as soon as I see riff raffs back again.
Ebola-India is a virus that came about since Modi emerged on the national political scene. Researchers believe that the Ebola virus lives in a hindu deity host that is native to the Indian continent. They continue to search for the exact deity but believe it to be Lord Shiva. Meanwhile Modi has been isolated in Nepal following his conversion to Islam with the whacking of his willy wacker.
.......from my perch I don't want to be Modi. In fact I don't wanna be a "leader" in India. They are ALL raypists. The fact of the matter is I don't even wanna go to India because I don't wanna get Ebola.
Untermensch Butcher of Gujarat Terrorist Narendra Modi of India was disinvited by Wharton Business School to attend an economic forum in USA. Hindus are furious but a terrorist is a terrorist and the world recognizes Modi as such.
Modi was responsible for the massacre of 300,000 Muslims in India.
He needs to be dragged to ICJ The Hague and face trial just like Milosevic.
There is nothing more I detest than a vicious murdering genocidalist like Modi. How can reasonable people elect him as a leader. Shame on India. Shame on North Korea.
Stalin and Mussolinis were world leaders too. Modi is the Joseph Mengele of modern times.
He is a pariah. A murderer. A genocidalist. Like Gandhi he enjoys underage boys. In fact his boyfriend is from Myanmar.
He is a woman basher. He married an underage girl and abandoned her on nuptial night.
I mean why dont we give India some more aid to promote democracy and to hold plebiscite in Indian Held Kashmir. Dont you think that is a good idea @Simon?
We give them plenty money. No more.
The violence in Indian-held Kashmir is the result of decades of repressive Indian policies and imposition of sham elections in the region.
We call upon India to understand that the people of Jammu and Kashmir would accept nothing short of their right to self-determination as promised to them by the UNSC and accepted by India and the international community.
At an annual briefing with reporters, India's Delhi Police Commissioner Bhim Sain Bassi said that a total of 122,069 raipe cases were reported in New Delhi in the 12 months leading up to December 15, against 92,571 reported the previous year, an increase of 31.6 per cent.
Ahhhhhh.... How much we miss our role model @Blue Saffron the top ace of this community.
Americans don't raipe people. There are exactly zero gay priests caught raping little boys each year. Indians are the bad guys. Not U.S.
Americans are faithful to the God that presidents swear by and feed their own children even if that means borrowing money from Chinese folks.
Americans held plebiscite in Puerto Rico. They are democratic people.
Hindoos should learn from Americans a d hold plebiscite in Indian Occupied Kashmir.
Americans are the smartest most physically fit people on earth and are well behaved. Do not listen to multi million dollar research studies that prove otherwise. America is good to go.
U.S. Congress, and I'm talking about democrats and republicans, bow their heads and actually pray to the God of the bible before each and every single open session. What they do behind closed doors is none of your business.
Am not sure but I think Indians pray to cows. Maybe it's monkeys or something. I forget.
Of course there is a % of Americans who are only faithful to themselves and do not believe in The God of the bible presidents swear by. That's only a few millions of US who are far stupid and lazy and criminal. Other than those we are squeaky clean.
9/11 was not karma. Karma dictates what happens to Pagans in their supposed "next life". Not to American Christians in this one.
Did you know that there are millions of American Christians who believe that nothing happens by chance? That everything is scripted by God? Wonder what they think about 9/11.
Like a totem pole, the hinddoou world in India is ladder like and incremental, essentially defined by a caste system. You suppress the underprivileged and seek satisfaction from the pain and suffering you cause. It is nirvana and brings you closer to being in the good books of deities. Very much as taught by Mahabharata
Lol. This blue multiple name troll must be re tarded.
Same cut and paste BS. Nothing new. Nothing of relevance. Gotta feel sorry for the dummy.
Like a totem pole you stack black people in inner city slums and lure their boys into the front lines of your wars for spoils.
A look at front line battlefield pictures is a look at who-is-who among missing inner city youth. Not counting those kidnapped and never seen again. Which number approximately 182,000 missing children per year according to the FBI.
Even your Christian leaders get-in on the action for War. Churches waving US flags spouting Go die for "God &Country". As if Jehovah himself founded the USA and not a bunch of Freemasons.
Yes it is the Freemasons kidnapping our children and sacrificing them to the biblical god of War Satan the Devil and his demon Molech. And harvesting our children's organs for themselves, they have been doing this for over 3,500 years. They do this underneath Denver International Airpoet for a fact. And do in fact take children and make them look like little artists conceptions of what an alien from outer space might look like if real.
These things I say are honest and true I swear by God.
Where did YOU think Liverpool England got it's name? Pool of livers harvested by Illuminati Freemasons.
The name goes back to that area being known as Liuerpul, back in the 1190's. The modern word for "liver" was coined some centuries after that.
Transplantation technology is not 3500 years old.
When men such as myself deciphered DIA's wall hangings which told the same story I just did, the official order was given to take those tapestries down. A blatant cover up of crimes being committed.
Leo Tanguma's MURALS are still there.


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Photos of various parts of New York City underwater due to Hurricane Sandy have abounded over the last 24 hours: subway stations submerged, water pouring into Ground Zero, and the FDR Drive merged with the nearby river. But these events might not be an aberration in the future. According to various climate change models, the ocean will rise to the highest levels brought on by Hurricane Sandy within the next couple hundred years. We could be looking at a preview of the New York City of 2200.
Granted, predictions of the sea level beyond the year 2100 have wide confidence intervals, and depend greatly on variables like greenhouse gas emissions and how quickly some of the larger ice sheets in Greenland and the Antarctic melt. But even allowing for the world to get its emissions under control within a reasonable time frame, New York will still see the water level rise by several feet, as it did during the hurricane, within the next century or two.
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's water level sensor at The Battery in Lower Manhattan, water levels were 9.23 feet above normal at their highest point, which happened at about 9:24pm last night. The water level rise was sustained above five feet for about ten and a half hours, from 2:24pm on October 29 until 1:18am on October 30.
A report published in Nature Climate Change in June projects that on our current emissions path, the sea level will rise 40 inches by 2100 and 7 inches per decade thereafter. At that rate, the sea level would hit the Hurricane Sandy proportions of 9 feet around the year 2200; the five foot rise will occur in just over a century. The same paper notes that even if global warming is held to 2 degrees Celsius, there's a 50 percent probability that the sea level will reach 9 feet by the year 2300—much further out in time.
Another paper published in September 2011 that examines the potential sea level rise to the year 2500 also shows that right around the turn of the 23rd century, the sea level will be up about 9 feet. (There will necessarily be some differences between the global sea level and the one local to New York, but most estimates show the effect in New York to be on par with or greater than the global one). The sea level would rise that high in this projection if greenhouse gas concentrations remained on the high side and these emissions were not stabilized until after 2100.
These projections depend on a number of factors, including the melting of ice sheets. Scientists expect the effects of the melting of ice masses like Greenland and Antarctica to take place over the next few centuries to millenia but cannot pinpoint the pace. It's highly unlikely any of the ice sheets will melt completely before the next few centuries are through. But if even 40 percent of Greenland's ice mass melted, that alone would raise the sea level by a maximum of 9 feet.
The eventual sea level rise won't be accompanied by Frankenstorm-level disaster scenarios, like water pouring in through an elevator shaft. And New York's system for pumping water out of the way of its infrastructure is not to be discounted; already, the subways only function by the grace of a powerful and elaborate water displacement outfit. Still, the hurricane provides a visual reminder of how susceptible coastal cities will be to getting enveloped by a rising ocean.


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In Los Angeles County and throughout the country, families are a major focus of the American Community Survey (ACS), conducted each year by the U.S. Census Bureau. A family in Los Angeles County, as defined by the Census, includes a householder and all the other people in the housing unit related to him or her, by birth, marriage, or adoption.
Not all households in Los Angeles County are family households. Nonfamily households include those composed of unrelated roommates, or single-person households. In addition, family households may include non-family members who live in the same housing unit. Note that the data in this report presents estimated counts of households in Los Angeles County, not of people.
Unlike the Census—which is an exact count of people and households every ten years—ACS statistics are estimated based on a representative survey sample. For locations with populations under 60,000, the ACS is only available in 5-year estimates, rather than single-year periods. The 5-year estimates provide greater geographical granularity but a less granular time period.
How many households are family or nonfamily in Los Angeles County, California?
How many family households have children in Los Angeles County, California?
How many family households with children are headed by married couples in Los Angeles County, California?
Who heads non-married family households with children in Los Angeles County, California?
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Data is from the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey (ACS), 5-year estimates. The following tables are used:
• Total Households & by Type: Table B11001
• Households with Children: Table B11005
This report uses the Census Bureau Data API but is not endorsed or certified by the Census Bureau.